Enjoy the Experience of being on MARS with an incredible panorama by curiosity

This the facebook style photograph of NASA 'S curiosity but guess who is the photographer??

The answer is that Curiosity itself is responsible for the pictures, with strong assists from image-processing gurus. These views show the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered mobile laboratory at a geological site of interest known as Glenelg, as of Sol 84 (Oct. 31). 

They were assembled from imagery captured by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, looking backward from the end of the rover's 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) robotic arm.MAHLI's main function is to get microscope-quality views of Martian details, such as the shape of sand grains on the surface — but it can also snap some killer self-portraits, just as smartphone users do with their forward-facing cameras. That's how Curiosity captured a Facebook-style profile picture of its own camera mastback in September, a month after landing in Mars' Gale Crater. Since then, the MAHLI team at San Diego-based Malin Space Science Systems and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has really hit its stride.

Amazing Panorama

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The interactive panorama above comes from photographer Andrew Bodrov of Estonia, whose previous Curiosity panorama showed the rover just after it landed in August. The self-portrait was stitched together from 66 shots taken with the rover’s MAHLI camera, which sits on the end of Curiosity’s arm and is not visible in the image, on Feb. 3. The full panorama incorporates about 130 photographs from the rover’s MastCams taken on later days and stretches about 30,000 pixels wide.